Gluten Free Rice Flour Snickerdoodles

I spend way too much money buying supermarket gluten free snickerdoodles. So when I was given a food blogger recipe challenge to remake C Mom Cook’s awesome Easy Rice-Flour Snickerdoodles cookies recipe, I had to go for it.

Shelley baked her gluten free rice flour snickerdoodles cookies recipefor a new friend as a thank you. But little did she know that she now has made them as a thank you for me! No more wasted money since I can be thrifty and make them at home.

The kids and I thought that her snickerdoodles cookies recipe was fantastic and just as good as the ones that I find at the store. I’m sure you’ll love them, too!

So what’s a snickerdoodle anyway?

I bet you don’t know the difference between a sugar cookie and a snickerdoodles cookie. Both cookies are made with flour, sugar, butter or oil, and sometimes eggs. However, sugar cookies are rolled in sugar.

Snickerdoodles are rolled in a combination of sugar and cinnamon. Yep, that’s the difference – cinnamon!

According to Wikipedia, The Joy of Cooking claims that snickerdoodles are probably German in origin. They speculate that the name is a corruption of the German word Schneckennudel, which is a type of pastry.

There’s also a possibility that snickerdoodle is just a nonsense word originating from a New England tradition of wacky cookie names.

Tips for making gluten free rice flour snickerdoodles

This gluten free snickerdoodles cookies recipe is super easy to bake up. You probably don’t need to buy any special ingredients, since most of us gluten free folks have white rice flour in the pantry.

If you’re a baker, brown sugar is a staple, and most of us always have butter, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and eggs on hand.

The biggest change I made was making the snickerdoodles dairy free by using a buttery spread. Feel free to use your favorite non-dairy buttery spread or real butter. Either will work. (Make sure to use salt free butter! Salted butter will cook up differently.)

Another note of caution! You MUST use white rice flour in this gluten free snickerdoodles cookies recipe.

20 thoughts on “Gluten Free Rice Flour Snickerdoodles”

I substituted with coconut oil and honey as a sweetener. I ended up having to use 2cups of homemade rice flour. Very crumbly but moist at the same time. I’m gonna have to play around with this a little cause I think the honey adds a different dynamic to the mixing process. Still good, and my kid liked it, so I’m happy!

So I found my self using 3 times as much of my homemade rice flour and also using 3 teaspoons of baking POWDER and it worked out just fine if any body would like to try this recipe. The cookies rose and spread. Hope this helps!

Heather, my mother-in-law has celiacs and I’ve been cooking for her for 13+ years (and way before I developed a sensitivity to gluten). So thanks for recommending my blog to her. Have her check out Udi’s Gluten Free’s community site, too! Lots of great info and recipes there, too.

Oh, yay! I am so glad that you liked these, and that they passed the test of true gluten-free-snickerdoodle fans! And very good to know about the white rice flour – I have very little gluten-free experience, but that happened to be what I had, so it’s good to know that it makes a difference. Thanks for the lovely post!